2016 – Page 4 – Glenside Hospital Museum

April 10, 2016

Butlins: stranger than a psychiatric hospital

A week in the life of a 1980s nursing assistant, preparing long term patients for life outside of hospital. A lively holiday at Butlins holiday park, including a massive bar and a volcano that erupted every 30 minutes. Welcome to normality.

March 20, 2016

Asylum Lives blog home page: Between the Devil and the Angels

Asylum Lives blog post by Paul Tobia This blog starts with the lives and experiences of people who suffered from mental health problems from 1861 to 1900 at the Bristol Lunatic Asylum

March 1, 2016

Harry Cator

Sergeant Harry Cator was born in Drayton, Norfolk to a railway worker. He joined the British Army in September 1914 and arrived on the Western Front in June 1915 as a Sergeant in The East Surrey Regiment

March 1, 2016

Albert Proud

Albert Proud was born and lived his entire life in Benwell. He joined the North East Sea Service in 1915, and was wounded in the hand in 1916

March 1, 2016

John Mulholland

At the beginning of our project, while assessing the Beaufort Archive at The Glenside Hospital Museum, we found a copy of John Mulholland’s Medical Report. He was at Beaufort in 1917. We have matched this report with his Service Record.

March 1, 2016

James Gaskell

James Gaskell was born in Chorley, Lancashire. He enlisted in The East Lancashire Regiment (The Chorley Pals) on the 15th September 1914, giving his age as 19 years 8 months, and his occupation as weaver.

March 1, 2016

Harry James Cogswell

Harry Cogswell was born in Box, Wiltshire, the second of four children. He suffered from poor health throughout his childhood, but he loved singing and was a chorister at his local church.

March 1, 2016

Carl A Eliasson

Australian Sapper Carl Eliasson enlisted on the 20th June 1916. His enlistment papers tell us hat he was a telegraphist from Fremantle Australia

March 1, 2016

George Pine

George Pine was a Bristol boy who fought with the Gloucesters from 1915 to 1918. He left for France in March 1915 aged 23.